Pease’s Leviathan Variety Store
The copy in Wilson’s Albany City Guide of 1844 says: “For richness and extensive variety of novelties, combining the Beautiful, the Useful and the Ornamental, this establishment excels any in […]
The copy in Wilson’s Albany City Guide of 1844 says: “For richness and extensive variety of novelties, combining the Beautiful, the Useful and the Ornamental, this establishment excels any in […]
Albany was always a river city. In 1844, the city itself still didn’t stray too far west of the river, and the movement of people and goods up and down […]
Or “bonnetter?” Either way. In 1844, Barnum Blake made bonnets, Florence straw and silk and velvet bonnets. He had French and American artificial flowers, ribbons, etc. He was located nearly […]
I wrote extensively about the Albany piano industry just a little over a year ago at All Over Albany. For a time, our nickname could have been The Piano City. […]
“Cheap” tends to have a pejorative connotation these days that it did not in 1844, when Erastus H. Pease was happy to let Albanians know that his book store dealt […]
Image via Wikipedia I’m not usually going to be lazy and linky here on Hoxsie, but when ABC News has gone to the effort to put together a nice story […]
Are there still rural routes? In the old days, if I wanted to send a letter to my aunt in West Glenville, I’d address it to her name, R.D. (rural […]
That this gem was replaced by the ’70s-era pile o’ bricks plaza just makes me want to cry. That we lost all our local banks in the frenzy to make […]
Ah, for the bronze age of advertising, when advertisers begged your leave to inform you of something, and then politely stated their case John T.D. Blackburn of 108 North Pearl […]
101 years ago, there was no TV news. There wasn’t even radio. The only way to get information about the greater world was by newspaper. And newspapers were sold by […]